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Re: Santa Brings Microsoft Patents for Editing, Compiling Code
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Santa Brings Microsoft Patents for Editing, Compiling Code |
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Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:50:10 +0100 |
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Buford <buford@macrohard.net> writes:
> The sheer brazenness of such corruption is shocking, but I guess the
> corruption really got started when they decided to grant patents for
> ideas in the first place. It used to be a truism that you couldn't
> patent ideas, and for all the right reasons. What the hell has
> happened?
The same thing that happened when copyright, the law balancing the
interests of creators and the public, was extended to 90 years after
the _death_ of the creator, or the expiration date of "Steamhouse
Willy", whichever is to come last.
Money.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum